Blaxnit Cup

Blaxnit Cup
Organising body	Irish Football Association; Football Association of Ireland
Founded	1967
Abolished	1974
Region	Northern Ireland; Republic of Ireland
Number of teams	8
Most successful club(s)	Coleraine (2 titles)

The Blaxnit Cup, is a defunct club football competition which featured teams from both football associations on the island of Ireland, in a similar format to the later Setanta Cup. It was inaugurated in 1967 as a cross-border competition between clubs from the League of Ireland from the Republic of Ireland and the Irish League from Northern Ireland and ran until 1974.^[1] The competition was sponsored by Blaxnit, a sock and hosiery manufacturer based in Newtownards.

The competition featured four teams from each league. The Blaxnit Cup was the third cross-border competition. Previous competitions included the Dublin and Belfast Intercity Cup 1941/42-1948/49 and the North-South Cup 1961/62-1962/63.

After the demise of the Blaxnit Cup teams from both sides of the border continued to compete in the Texaco Cup 1973/74-1974/75, the Tyler Cup 1978-1980 and after 2005 in the Setanta Sports Cup.

The tournament suffered from lack of interest and security concerns.

List of finals

Finals played over two legs except 1973–74.

Season	Winner (number of titles)	Score	Runner-up	Venue
1967–68	Shamrock Rovers (1)	2 – 0	Crusaders	Windsor Park, Belfast
1967–68	Shamrock Rovers (1)	1 – 2 (3 – 2 agg.)	Crusaders	Dalymount Park, Dublin
1968–69	Coleraine (1)	2 – 1	Shamrock Rovers	Windsor Park, Belfast
1968–69	Coleraine (1)	2 – 2 (4 – 3 agg.)	Shamrock Rovers	Dalymount Park, Dublin
1969–70	Coleraine (2)	0 – 1	Sligo Rovers	Windsor Park, Belfast
1969–70	Coleraine (2)	4 – 1 (4 – 2 agg.)	Sligo Rovers	Dalymount Park, Dublin
1970–71	Linfield (1)	1 – 1	Cork Hibernians	Windsor Park, Belfast
1970–71	Linfield (1)	2 – 1 (3 – 2 agg.)	Cork Hibernians	Dalymount Park, Dublin
1971–72	Cork Hibernians (1)	3 – 2	Coleraine	Flower Lodge, Cork
1971–72	Cork Hibernians (1)	2 – 1 (5 – 3 agg.)	Coleraine	The Showgrounds, Coleraine
1972–73	Glentoran (1)	1 – 1	Cork Hibernians	Flower Lodge, Cork
1972–73	Glentoran (1)	5 – 1 (6 – 2 agg.)	Cork Hibernians	Castlereagh Park, Newtownards
1973–74	Ards (1)	3 – 1	Ballymena United	Windsor Park, Belfast

References

^ "All-Ireland Cross-Border Cup Competitions". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 12 June 2007.

External links

[1] "All-Ireland Cross-Border Cup Competitions". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 12 June 2007.

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